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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in elearning enable people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to better understand these new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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